Meaning of ser quen | Babel Free

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to be able to, to be capable of

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“[…] os empregados non se deixan asoballar pola súa maldade, e o mesmo porteiro deprendeu a poñerlle cara de can. Somente Pedro é un manteiguiñas, incapaz de defenderse. A covardía do xefe cabalga na covardía de Pedro, para locí-las arroutadas que non é quen de descargar no lombo dos outros. Pedro sofre en silenzo; pero cóme-no as xenreiras, e non pode ollá-la cara daquel home sen desexarlle a morte.”

[…] employees don't let him oppress them with his meanness, and even the doorman learnt to put an angry face for him. But Pedro is a poor thing, unable to defend himself. The boss' cowardice rides Pedro's, to show off the outbursts that he is incapable of discharging over other's shoulders. Pedro suffers in silence; but spite eats him, and he can't watch that man's face without wishing his death.

“Cando voltei, cheguei e enchín, choran os problemas e chaman por min; non sei moi ben se hoxe vou ser quen de pasar de lado como se non fora comigo.”

When I came back, and pulled it off at the first attempt [veni, vidi, vici] the troubles cry and call me; I'm not sure if today I'll be capable of passing by as if that's not me.

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